Brian Mulroney: Unauthorized Biography

THE 'Dump Joe Clark' Movement

Walter Wolf
telegram
Allan Gregg
WALTER WOLF
Wolf talks about how he and other prominent Canadians worked together to remove Joe Clark in 1983. more
Watch clip.		 THE LAND FLIP
Documents show how German money was funneled into a complicated land flip deal. more
See document. (.pdf file)		 ALAN GREGG ON THE QUEBEC DELGATES
Former PC activist and pollster talks about the 1983 leadership review in Winnipeg. more
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Helge Wittholz
Joe Clark
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HELGE WITTHOLZ  SPEAKS OUT
In 2001 the fifth estate interviewed the Canadian president of German helicopter manufacturer, Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm. Helge Wittholz speaks out about how, without his knowledge, secret commissions were paid by his parent company for a Canadian helicopter contract. He and others explain how this was done as pay-back for the German money used to help fund the 'Dump Joe Clark' movement.
Watch clip.		 JOE CLARK RESPONDS
In 2001 Joe Clark, former leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, responds to a fifth estate investigation that reveals how foreign money helped remove him from office.
Watch clip.		 A BUDDING FRIENDSHIP
A congratulatory telegram from Brian Mulroney to Karlheinz Schreiber. more
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Tracing the origins of the $300,000 cash payments to Brian Mulroney is a bit of a history lesson, but it’s a history you won’t find in his recently published memoirs.

The seeds for his dealings in Canada were planted by German-Canadian businessman Karlheinz Schreiber ten years before the fact. The Conservative Party was at war with itself. There was a movement to replace the leader Joe Clark with the future leader, Brian Mulroney.

You’d never know it from Mulroney’s memoirs, but at the time a group of his supporters were raising money in private to send delegates to vote against Joe Clark at the 1983 leadership convention in Winnipeg. Schreiber, who represented powerful European business interests, saw an opportunity. Through a complicated land flip deal, he says he made a secret donation to the 'Dump-Clark movement'. It was a calculated move on Schreiber’s part, laying the groundwork for a friendship with the future prime minister of Canada and a business friendly climate for the companies he represented. Among those business interests, was European airplane manufacturer giant, Airbus Industrie.

Next: The Secret Airbus Deal

In 2001 the fifth estate interviewed European-Canadian businessman Walter Wolf. He talks about how he and other prominent Canadians and Germans worked together to remove Joe Clark from Office in 1983. New documents uncovered by the fifth estate show how German money was funneled into a complicated land-flip deal engineered by former Newfoundland Premier Frank Moores. At the time Moores was raising money for the ‘Dump Joe Clark’ movement. Karlheinz Schreiber says he and Bavarian Premier Franz Joseph Strauss put $369,000 into the land purchase. The profits were funnelled into the effort to remove Joe Clark from office. This document shows the $369,000 payment by companies connected to Karlheinz Schreiber and Franz Joseph Strauss. In 2001 the fifth estate interviewed Progressive Conservative activist and pollster, Allen Gregg. He talks about the impact of unexplained Quebec delegates at the 1983 Progressive Conservative leadership review in Winnipeg. Others explain how German money helped fund the delegates to travel to Winnipeg to vote against Joe Clark. the fifth estate and The Globe and Mail have obtained this congratulatory telegram from Brian Mulroney to Karlheinz Schreiber. It came to Schreiber in 1982, when he became a Canadian citizen. That was shortly after Schreiber’s secret donation to the effort to remove Joe Clark from power.